2. HOME What comes to your mind? Shelter for rest Comfort Family

3. HOME do you regard your hostel as ? There is still a staggering 37% of respondents who do NOT regard their hostel as home.

4. No!

6. SOCIAL ENERGY

7. Site analysis

9. Site analysis

11. No one size fits all solution

12. precedents

13. Communication between people Time

14. Lack of communication between people lack in family bonding GAP

15. strategy To design a hostel that knows you as well as your family does and one that is personal and unique to every individual

16. 1

17. smart floor

18. switches still present but floor triggers light after accustomization Floor which detects your feet Heat sensing? Electroconductiv e? Pressure sensing? 1. senses footsteps Heat sensing? Electroconductiv e? Pressure sensing? Heat sensing? Electroconductiv e? Pressure sensing? 2.remembers them 3.connected to power grid and predicts movement

19. 2

20. smart system 8am Home prepares you to wake up 1. blinds unravel, natural light enter and body wakes up 2. foot steps on ground, triggers system? Heater turns on so user can bathe with hot water immediately 8.45am Readies itself for user departure, triggered when feet leaves home, all appliances switched OFF 12pm Time to sleep! 1. Lights dim gradually 2. Lights turn bluish hue? 5pm Back from school, time to study? 1.optimal light for studying? 2.Study lamp switches on when footsteps approaches study table

21. So this is how we harness the technology of an adaptive system to make our hostel a home

22. thank you!